From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261636AbUBVBJi (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:09:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261637AbUBVBJi (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:09:38 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-240-129.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.240.129]:28421 "EHLO mikef-fw.mikef-fw.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261636AbUBVBJf (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:09:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4038014E.5070600@matchmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:09:34 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1 References: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4037FCDA.4060501@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Fedyk wrote: > I have 1.5 GB of ram in this system that will be a Linux Terminal Server > (but using Debian & VNC). There's 600MB+ anonymous memory, 600MB+ slab > cache, and 100MB page cache. That's after turning off swap (it was > 400MB into swap at the time). Here's my top slab users: dentry_cache 585455 763395 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 50893 50893 3 ext3_inode_cache 686837 688135 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 98305 98305 0 buffer_head 34095 78078 48 77 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1014 1014 0 vm_area_struct 42103 44602 64 58 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 769 769 0 pte_chain 20964 43740 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1458 1458 0 radix_tree_node 22494 23520 260 15 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 1568 1568 0 filp 14474 15315 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 1021 1021 0 nfs_inode_cache 2822 9264 640 6 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 1544 1544 0 size-128 3420 4410 128 30 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 147 147 0 size-32 3420 3472 32 112 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 31 31 0 size-64 2823 3248 64 58 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 56 56 0 proc_inode_cache 2580 3180 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 318 318 0 dnotify_cache 2435 2490 20 166 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 15 15 0 sock_inode_cache 1888 1981 512 7 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 283 283 0 unix_sock 1682 1710 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 171 171 0 inode_cache 1650 1690 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : slabdata 169 169 0 f